Cooking Definition and 80 Threads

I have a block of food in an oven and I want to calculate the "cooking intensity" of the block during a controlled oven cycle. The cycle of the oven is that it heats at 5 degrees (C) per minute, holds the temperature at 300C for 1 hour, and then shuts off the oven to cool to room temperature. I...

Hi everyone: Have you ever heard anything about the effects of the microwave on body? ..

Is there some place with good information on saltpeter+sugar rocket propellant and it's making? The problem is, there are a lot of places on the internet telling how to do it right, but next to none on how to do it wrong, and I'm not brave enough to follow someone's instructions without...

Hi PF, I really didn't know where to ask the following question so redirect the thread if necessary. I'd like to know why I can't really "close" cooking oil bottle caps. I can screw the oil bottle caps but when it's almost totally screwed, suddenly it's like it unscrew and I have to screw it...

Homework Statement A heavy copper pot of mass 2.0 kg (including the copper lid) is at a temperature of 150°C. You pour 0.10 kg of water at 25°C into the pot, then quickly close the lid of the pot so that no steam can escape. Find the final temperature of the pot and its contents, and determine...

Okay, everyone can go ahead and disagree with me, but I like http://www.americastestkitchen.com/" I like the idea of being scientific and trying everything they can think of then picking the best recipe. They always do recipes of the kind of food I like best. Big thick pork chops, comfort foods...

Homework Statement Suppose a cooking device has a power of P Watts. The temperature of the bulb which radiates heat is determined to be T (in Kelvin). Write an expression for efficiency in terms of T and P. Homework Equations E = \sigmaT^{4} Stefann Boltzmann equation \eta=...

The restaurant where I get my Pho (a Vietnamese noodle soup) is run by a nice lady who makes special treats for me every time I visit. One time it was a peanut butter ball with tiny pieces of apple, another time it was tiny scoops of tuna fish salad. The last few times she has treated my to tiny...

Explain! Please * You can cook es by vegatables by dropping them into boiling water or by placing them in a basket over boiling water, putting the lid on the potand steaming them. Which method do you think would be faster? Explain your reasoning.

So, you have steak which you toss on a hot pan. The heat eventually break apart the molecules, making oxygen and hydrogen evaporate and you are left with just carbon, a burnt crust on your steak. My question is, why does this change when you use oil or fat? I have two possible solutions...

http://www.headcook.co.uk/lodge-logic-dutch-oven-1025-p-2069.html?source=webgains&siteid=7963 Is this a good one? it looks way to big for cooking for one, but if i cook a batch of chili may be it will last all week?

This channel cracks me up. Could they possibly have more people hosting cooking shows that have no background in cooking? :smile: Bobby Flay, high school drop out that is dating the producer's daughter. This classless idiot has no place in the cooking world. Emeril Lagasee. As his...

Ah, Finally. Winter break has rolled around. Tomorrow is my first day of winter break a free man. Over the break I want to cook, eat, cook, eat, cook, eat and cook some more! But the problem is I don't really know anything about cooking, and I need some ideas on some foods to make and eat. I...

At restaurants they always cook vegetables with butter and serve with steak. Perhaps a combination might be broccoli, carrot, and squash. I always like that and want to learn how to cook it myself, is it called sautéing? How do I do it?

Not the waves, but the cooking device. I am curious how the radiation is generated, and why it stays inside the microwave (the outside doesn't get hot).

Homework Statement A househusband is cooking beef stew for his family in a pan that is (a) uncovered, (b) covered with a light lid, and (c) covered with a heavy lid. For which case will the cooking be the shortest? Why? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution...

I need to runs this by some others to make sure it checks out. The guy that runs bugsweeps.com claims that microwaved food is dangerous. He claims that the water molecules in the food keep oscillating at 2450 MHz after the food is removed from the oven and this is somehow dangerous to us. So...

Someone likened cooking with titration. How accurate is this? Is heat usually applied to titration? Does titration recquire physical labour to stir the solution? If not than these are two big differences between cooking and titration. What other chemical methods/techniques are comparable to...

Homework Statement How can food in an oven be made to cook more quickly? Explain why you think that your answer states the most effective method. Homework Equations none The Attempt at a Solution All I can think is by increasing the temperture at which the oven is set. i.e. Let more...

me and my friends are having an arguemnet. what is better for cooking an egg during the summer: on hot asphalt or on a sewer cap. EXAMPLE: you have a sewer cap and the surrounding asphalt. both have been sitting in the sun for the same amount of time. If you were to crack an egg on both...

I seem to suck at it :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I tried to mimick carls jr's double western bacon cheeseburger... and i failed miserably. It all started when i tried to make onion rings for hte hamburger. Problem #1: the onion rings were not... coming out as rings of onion from the "master"...

I have a recipe for ice cream that requires me to "scald" the milk. :confused: I type in "scald milk" into google and, sure enough, I get a list of web sites that explain how to scald/scorch milk. From O Chef Okay, after that, it actually does explain what's meant by scalding/scorching...

How do you heat cooking oil - it's flammable so it'd have to be under an inert atmosphere right? How do you set this up?

Man am i tempted to start cooking now! but no no, ill stay a physics major... The one thing i really hate about cooking for some reason is that it takes so much more time to make food then it takes to actually sit down and eat it. Like I've told 3 people, "30 minutes to make, 3 minutes to eat...

I have been tasked to make this for a party I'm going to tomorrow: I found everything except for the "pumpkin pie spice". Anyone have any idea what's in that? Can I do without and just add some more cinnamon and nutmeg? Should I run out to the store and grab something else? (I hope not...

you know what, all of the food I eat contains cooking wine. I also just sipped a bit, but why am I not drunk at all ? at least there must be some reactions like allergy on my skin, the same as when I drink beer, but it still like when I just come out from the bath-room, clean and well?

My market sells these individual potatoes and sweet potatoes wrapped (sealed) in plastic. They're called http://www.progressiverecipes.com/package_microbaker_pot.html . Have you seen these? The label says "Oven Baked Taste - right from the microwave." I am curious if this plastic wrap really...

I like to cook, which is good thing because my wife doesn't, and it is probably one of the reasons my wife married me. :biggrin: I used to help my mom and her mom when they were cooking, and that's probably where I get my interest in cooking. Anyway, I am always looking for interesting and...

I've heard a lot of people that say cooking is a science. I've always thought of cooking as an art...a very tasting one. Can someone explain to me how cooking is a science, and how it incorporates the scientific method?